About Salaries.ie

Our Mission

Salaries.ie exists to make Irish salary data accessible and transparent. Whether you are a worker negotiating a raise, a job seeker weighing an offer, an employer benchmarking compensation, or a researcher studying wage dynamics, understanding how earnings vary across sectors, regions, age groups, and genders should not require a statistics degree or hours spent navigating government databases. We believe pay transparency leads to fairer outcomes for everyone in the Irish labour market.

What We Do

We transform raw statistical data from the Central Statistics Office into clear, comparable salary insights that anyone can understand at a glance. The site covers earnings across 13 economic sectors, all 26 counties, multiple age brackets, and both genders — producing over 1,000 pages of detailed salary analysis. Every page is designed to answer a specific question: what do people earn in my sector, in my county, at my age, and how has that changed over time?

Our Data Source

All salary figures on Salaries.ie are derived from the CSO's Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources (EAADS). Unlike traditional surveys that sample a fraction of the workforce, the EAADS is built from actual Revenue Commissioners records covering every PAYE employment in Ireland. This makes it census-level data — the most comprehensive and reliable source of earnings information available for the Irish economy.

The underlying data is published by the CSO under its open data policy and is available for anyone to access at data.cso.ie. We encourage users who want to explore the raw statistical tables to visit the CSO's data portal directly. All CSO data used on this site is in the public domain.

How We Add Value

We do not simply republish raw CSO tables. The value of Salaries.ie lies in the analysis, context, and presentation we layer on top of the official data. Specifically, we calculate year-on-year salary trends so you can see whether earnings in a given sector or county are rising or falling. We produce inflation-adjusted comparisons that show how real purchasing power has changed, not just nominal figures. We build cross-sector and cross-county rankings so you can quickly identify the highest- and lowest-paying areas of the economy. We conduct gender pay gap analysis at every level of granularity the data supports.

Beyond the numbers, we present everything through interactive charts, structured comparison tools, and a navigation system designed to let you drill down from a national overview to a specific sector in a specific county. We also provide contextual benchmarks — such as rent-to-salary ratios — that help you understand what a given salary actually means in practical terms.

Editorial Independence

Salaries.ie is not affiliated with the Central Statistics Office, any employer, any recruitment agency, or any government body. We do not publish sponsored content, and no organisation pays to influence the data, analysis, or rankings that appear on this site. The site is ad-supported, which allows us to keep all salary data and analysis freely available to every visitor. Our only obligation is to the accuracy and usefulness of the information we present.

Update Schedule

Salary data is refreshed each time the CSO publishes a new EAADS release, which typically occurs annually. Supplementary data — including labour force and employment figures that inform our contextual analysis — is updated on a quarterly basis as new CSO releases become available. Our automated data pipeline checks for new publications monthly, ensuring that the site reflects the latest available figures without unnecessary delay.

Who This Site Is For

Salaries.ie serves a broad audience. Workers use it to benchmark their current salary against sector and regional averages. Job seekers use it to evaluate whether an offer is competitive before accepting a new role. Employers and HR professionals use it to set pay scales that attract and retain talent. Journalists and media organisations draw on our analysis when reporting on pay trends, gender gaps, and regional economic disparities. Academic researchers and policymakers use the site as a convenient reference point for Irish earnings data, particularly when they need accessible summaries rather than raw statistical tables.

Methodology

For full technical details on how we process, normalise, and present CSO data — including our approach to inflation adjustment, trend calculation, and data categorisation — please see our Methodology page.

Contact

We welcome questions, feedback, and data requests. If you have spotted an error, have a suggestion for a new feature, or would like to discuss a data partnership, please get in touch at hello@salaries.ie. We aim to respond to all enquiries within two working days.

Legal

Salaries.ie is operated by Archaic Limited, a company registered in Ireland (Company No. 811858). For our data usage policies and terms of service, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.